Survey Contributors

SURVEY CONTRIBUTORS

Freedom House Staff Sanja Kelly, Project Director Julia Breslin, Research and Editorial Associate Tyler Roylance, Staff Editor

Contributing Authors Algeria Nadia Marzouki, Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University Bahrain Dunya Ahmed Abdulla Ahmed, Assistant Professor and Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of Bahrain Egypt Mariz Tadros, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Iran Nayereh Tohidi, Professor and Chair, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, California State University, Northridge Iraq Huda Ahmed, journalist, former special correspondent and translator for the Washington Post and McClatchy Newspapers in Iraq Jordan Rana Husseini, journalist, Jordan Times; women’s rights activist Kuwait Haya al-Mughni, sociologist and independent researcher Lebanon Mona Chemali Khalaf, economist and independent consultant; former director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University

Sanja Kelly and Julia Breslin, eds., Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (New York, NY: Freedom House; Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littleﬁ eld, 2010). Available in paperback, as a CD-ROM, and online at http://www.freedomhouse.org. Libya Alison Pargeter, Senior Research Associate, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge Morocco Fatima Sadiqi, Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies, University of Fes; Director, Isis Centre for Women and Development Oman Raﬁ ah al-Talei, journalist; freelance columnist, Alshabiba, Muscat Palestine Suheir Azzouni, independent expert on gender and human rights; former General Director, Women’s Affairs Technical Committee, Palestinian Territories Qatar Julia Breslin, Research and Editorial Associate, Freedom House Toby Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University Saudi Arabia Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Tunisia Lilia Ben Salem, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tunis United Arab Emirates Serra Kirdar, Founder and Director, Muthabara Foundation, Dubai Yemen Elham Manea, Lecturer, Political Science Institute, University of Zurich

Regional Advisory Committee Algeria Boutheina Cheriet, Professor of Comparative Education, University of Algiers Bahrain Munira Fakhro, Associate Professor, University of Bahrain

Sanja Kelly and Julia Breslin, eds., Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (New York, NY: Freedom House; Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littleﬁ eld, 2010). Available in paperback, as a CD-ROM, and online at http://www.freedomhouse.org. Egypt Nehad Abul Komsan, Director, Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights, Cairo Iraq Sundus Abass, Director, Women in Leadership Institute, Erbil Jordan Ibtesam al-Atiyat, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, St. Olaf College Kuwait Lubna al-Kazi, Professor, Department of Sociology, Kuwait University Lebanon Lina Abou-Habib, Director, Collective for Research and Training on Development Action, Beirut Marie-Rose Zalzal, human rights lawyer Morocco Souad Eddouada, Professor, Cultural and Gender Studies, Iben Tofail University, Kenitra Oman Ebtisam al-Kitbi, Professor, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, United Arab Emirates University Dawn Chatty, Deputy Director, Refugee Studies Centre; University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford Palestine Soraida Hussein, Director of Research, Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, Ramallah Qatar Mona al-Mutawa, attorney, Al-Mutawa Law Firm; founding member, Qatari Bar Association Saudi Arabia May al-Dabbagh, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Director of the Gender and Public Policy Program, Dubai School of Government Tunisia Mounira Charrad, Professor, Department of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin

United Arab Emirates Rima Sabban, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Zayed University, Dubai Yemen Wameedh Shakir, Gender Program Ofﬁ cer, Legal Protection and Advocacy Program, OXFAM, Sana’a

Legal Advisor Badria al-Awadhi, attorney; former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Kuwait University